Written Answers Wednesday 29 November 2006

Scottish Executive

Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000

Derek Brownlee (South of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) initial set up and (b) annual costs to (i) the Executive, (ii) local authorities, (iii) other public sector organisations or bodies and (iv) other individuals, organisations and bodies of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 were projected to be in the Financial Memorandum to the bill and what the actual (1) initial set up costs were and (2) annual costs have been in each year since the act came into force, in each category.

Johann Lamont: The Standing Orders of the Scottish Parliament require all Executive bills on introduction to be accompanied by a Financial Memorandum which sets out the best estimates of the administrative, compliance and other costs to which the provisions of the bill would give rise, best estimates of the timescales over which such costs would be expected to arise, and an indication of the margins of uncertainty in such estimates. The Financial Memorandum must distinguish separately such costs as would fall upon (a) the Scottish administration, (b) local authorities and (c) other bodies, individuals and businesses. These memoranda are freely available on the Parliament’s website.

  By way of comparable information the actual initial set up costs and annual costs for the year 2005-06 are as follows:

  

 Actual


 Executive
 Local Authorities
 Other


 Set Up
 Annual
 Set Up
 Annual
 Set Up
 Annual


 1,347,000
 1,109,000
 Not Held Centrally
 Not Held Centrally
 12,000
 603,000



  The actual costs incurred by the Scottish Executive exclude those falling on the Scottish Court Service. The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 accounts for a very small proportion of court business and it is not possible to disaggregate budgets to identify, with a meaningful degree of accuracy, the proportion of costs directly attributable to the act. Information on actual costs incurred by local authorities is not held centrally. However, local authorities received £1 million for 2001-02 and subsequent years as part of the local government finance settlement in consideration of their responsibilities under the act. The level of this additional element was assessed on the basis that local authorities would make applications for 1,000 intervention orders and 500 guardianship orders by the end of the first year of the bill’s operation. For the year 2005-06, local authorities made 92 applications for intervention orders and 399 applications for guardianship orders.

Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004

Derek Brownlee (South of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) initial set up and (b) annual costs to (i) the Executive, (ii) local authorities, (iii) other public sector organisations or bodies and (iv) other individuals, organisations and bodies of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 were projected to be in the Financial Memorandum to the bill and what the actual (1) initial set up costs were and (2) annual costs have been in each year since the act came into force, in each category.

Johann Lamont: The Financial Memorandum to the bill is available on the Parliament’s website. Comparable actual costs are not however readily available. The act is broken down into 12 parts with associated costs being incurred across a wide range of budgets. Disaggregating budgets to identify, with a meaningful degree of accuracy, the proportion of costs directly attributable to the act would be a time consuming and expensive exercise for all the parties involved. Those organisations affected by the act publish accounts which allow effective scrutiny of their overall expenditure, in the context of Best Value, as opposed to looking at the costs of one piece of legislation or other in isolation.

Benefits

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the population have been in receipt of income support in each year since 1999, also broken down by local authority area.

Malcolm Chisholm: The following table shows the percentage of population aged 16 to 59 claiming Income Support by Scottish local authority.

  Percentage of the Population Aged 16 to 59 Claiming Income Support, 1999-2006

  

 Local Authority
 1999
 2000
 2001
 2002
 2003
 2004
 2005
 2006


 Aberdeen City
 5.6
 5.9
 6.1
 6.4
 6.4
 6.3
 5.9
 5.8


 Aberdeenshire
 3.3
 3.5
 3.6
 3.7
 3.6
 3.4
 3.3
 3.2


 Angus
 4.9
 5.2
 5.4
 5.5
 5.6
 5.5
 5.2
 5.1


 Argyll and Bute
 5.5
 5.5
 5.6
 5.7
 5.6
 5.4
 5.2
 5.0


 Clackmannanshire
 8.2
 8.4
 8.8
 8.6
 8.7
 8.3
 8.0
 8.1


 Dumfries and Galloway
 5.5
 5.6
 5.8
 5.9
 5.9
 5.8
 5.7
 5.7


 Dundee City
 10.1
 10.2
 10.4
 10.6
 10.5
 10.5
 10.0
 9.7


 East Ayrshire
 8.4
 8.6
 8.8
 8.8
 8.7
 8.8
 8.5
 8.4


 East Dunbartonshire
 3.7
 3.8
 4.0
 4.0
 3.9
 3.8
 3.7
 3.6


 East Lothian
 5.9
 5.8
 5.7
 5.8
 5.6
 5.3
 5.1
 5.1


 East Renfrewshire
 4.1
 4.2
 4.2
 4.3
 4.3
 4.1
 3.9
 3.8


 Edinburgh, City of
 6.7
 6.7
 6.7
 6.6
 6.5
 6.2
 6.0
 5.9


 Eilean Siar
 5.0
 5.1
 5.0
 5.1
 5.1
 5.0
 4.7
 4.5


 Falkirk
 6.8
 7.1
 7.0
 7.0
 6.9
 6.6
 6.4
 6.2


 Fife
 6.4
 6.4
 6.5
 6.5
 6.6
 6.4
 6.2
 6.2


 Glasgow City
 16.2
 16.5
 16.4
 16.2
 15.5
 14.8
 14.1
 13.7


 Highland
 5.6
 5.8
 5.8
 6.0
 5.9
 5.8
 5.5
 5.5


 Inverclyde
 11.5
 11.6
 11.7
 11.9
 11.5
 10.9
 10.5
 10.3


 Midlothian
 6.4
 6.3
 6.4
 6.4
 6.2
 6.1
 5.8
 5.5


 Moray
 4.5
 4.7
 4.8
 4.7
 4.5
 4.3
 4.2
 4.1


 North Ayrshire
 9.4
 9.6
 9.8
 10.0
 9.7
 9.5
 8.9
 8.8


 North Lanarkshire
 9.5
 9.7
 9.9
 9.9
 9.8
 9.3
 9.0
 8.7


 Orkney Islands
 3.2
 3.2
 3.4
 3.5
 3.5
 3.3
 3.2
 3.2


 Perth and Kinross
 4.6
 4.7
 4.9
 4.7
 4.7
 4.6
 4.5
 4.4


 Renfrewshire
 8.4
 8.6
 9.0
 8.9
 8.9
 8.4
 8.0
 7.9


 Scottish Borders
 4.3
 4.5
 4.7
 4.9
 4.8
 4.5
 4.4
 4.4


 Shetland Islands
 3.3
 3.5
 3.3
 3.4
 3.4
 3.4
 3.4
 3.4


 South Ayrshire
 6.7
 6.8
 6.9
 7.1
 7.1
 6.9
 6.9
 6.6


 South Lanarkshire
 7.9
 8.0
 8.2
 8.2
 8.1
 7.8
 7.3
 7.1


 Stirling
 5.8
 5.7
 5.7
 5.7
 5.6
 5.4
 5.2
 5.2


 West Dunbartonshire
 10.9
 11.1
 11.2
 11.4
 11.4
 10.8
 10.5
 10.3


 West Lothian
 6.9
 6.9
 6.9
 7.0
 7.0
 6.7
 6.5
 6.4


 Scotland
 7.8
 8.0
 8.1
 8.1
 8.0
 7.7
 7.4
 7.2



  Source: Benefit claimants from DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study. Populations from GRO(S) mid year population estimates.

  Note: August snapshot for all years except May 2006.

Bridges

Shona Robison (Dundee East) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what stage the study of the economic, social and environmental impact and cost of retaining or removing tolls from the Tay and Forth road bridges has reached.

Tavish Scott: The consultant appointed to conduct the study, Steer Davies Gleave, is progressing a number of aspects of the work. This includes developing the traffic modelling work done in Phases 1 and 2 of the Tolled Bridges Review; conducting primary research, including consulting businesses and bridge users, to provide an understanding of how individuals and businesses behave in relation to the bridge tolls, and assessing the economic and other impacts of the tolls. We expect the consultant to submit a draft final report to the Executive by the end of the year.

Bridges

Shona Robison (Dundee East) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many responses it received to its consultation on retaining or removing tolls from the Tay and Forth road bridges.

Tavish Scott: A total of 89 submissions were received in response to the invitation to submit factual evidence in support of retaining or removing the bridge tolls.

Bridges

Shona Robison (Dundee East) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost will be of carrying out the study of the economic, social and environmental impact and cost of retaining or removing tolls from the Tay and Forth bridges.

Tavish Scott: A budget of up to £85,000 (excluding VAT) has been allocated for this work. The final costs will not be known until the study is complete.

Culture

Derek Brownlee (South of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many cultural successes there have been in each year from 2003-04 and what these successes were.

Patricia Ferguson: In 2004, the Executive introduced a target to increase the number of cultural successes by 3% by end March 2008. The following table details the cultural successes for 2004-05 and 2005-06 against this target, covering Scottish artists, born or resident in Scotland, and artistic companies, groups, institutions, and films based in Scotland, short-listed or nominated for major UK and international cultural awards and prizes:

  

 
 Baseline Year


 2004-05
 2005-06


 Winners
 42
 33


 Shortlist/nominations/etc
 68
 104


 Totals
 110
 137



  Details are as follows:

  

 Award/Prize
 2005-06 Detail


 Academy Awards
 Nomination: Badgered Sharon Colman for Best Animated Short 


 ADAPT Trust (Access for Disabled people to Arts Premises Today)
 Glasgow Film Theatre


 BAFTA Television
Winner: Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares for Best Television Feature
Nomination: Rory Bremner for Best Comedy Performance


 BAFTA Film
Winner: James McAvoy for Orange Rising Star Award
Nominations: Festival – Christopher Young/Annie Griffin for the Alexander Korda Award Best British Film Award; Annie Griffin (Director/Writer) Festival for the Carl Foreman Award


 BAFTA Childrens
 Nominations: Balamory (CBBC Scotland/Cbeebies) for Pre-school Live Action; Law & Order: Citizenship: Hindsight (CBBC Scotland/BBC2) for Schools Factual – Primary


 BBC Folk Awards
Winner: Julie Fowlis for the Horizon Award
Nominations: Chris Stout for Musician of the Year, Karine Polwart for Folk Singer of the Year


 BBC Young Folk Awards
Winner: Bodega
Finalists: Shona Donaldson, Matheu Watson


 BBC Jazz Awards
 Winner: Accoustic Ladyland for Best Band 
Nominations: Polar Bear for Best Band; Accoustic Ladyland Camouflage for Jazz Line-up Album of the year


 Becks Futures Arts and Student Film and Video prize
 Shortlisted: Luke Fowler, Donald Urquhart for Becks Futures, Craig Wilson for the Student Film and Video Prize


 Bombay Sapphire Prize
 Joint winners for Roker Breakfast – Anne Brodie (Scotland) Ruth Dupre and Louise Gilbert Scott


 BP Portrait Award
 Saul Robertson, second prize


 Brit Awards
 Winner: KT Tunstall for Best British Female Artist. 
Nominations: - KT Tunstall for Best British Live Act and Best British Breakthrough Artist; Franz Ferdinand for Best British Rock Act, Best British Live Act and Best British Group.


 British Book Awards
Winner: Ian Rankin Fleshmarket Close for Crime Thriller of the YearShortlisted: Alexander McCall Smith for Author of the Year, Dr Gillian McKeith for Book of the Year and TV and Film Book of the year, Ewan McGregor (and Charlie Boorman) for TV and Film Book of the Year


 British Composer Awards 
 Nominations: Judith Weir in Chamber and Instrumental Solo and Duo; Thea Musgrave in Orchestral; Rory Boyle, John McLeod in Wind and Brass


 Cannes Film Festival
 In competition for Cinéfondation – Badgered directed by Sharon Colman


 Celtic Film and Television Festival
Winners: Shoebox Zoo - The Magic Is Awakened, BBC Scotland for Children and Young People Award; Martyn Bennett: Grit by MacTV for Arts Documentary Award; High Times by stv for Drama Series Award; Still Game by the Comedy Unit for Entertainment Award; Niall Iain Macdonald, BBC Radio nan Gaidheal for Radio Presenter/Personality Award; Gutted, Tern Television for Factual Documentary Award; www.bbc.co.uk/balamory Balamory website, BBC Scotland for Website Award.
Shortlisted: The Tree Officer, Ko Lik Films/Scottish Screen/UK Film Council for Animation Award; Foighidinn, Young Films BBC Scotland/GMS/Scottish Screen for Short Drama Award; Tumshie McFadgen’s Bid for Ultimate Bliss, Plum Films/BBC Scotland/Scottish Screen for Short Drama Award; Maighstir Ailean, MNE TV/Glasgow Gaelic Media Service for Arts Documentary Award; Na Daoine Beaga, BBC Scotland for Young People Award; Detox or Die, Hopscotch Films/BBC One Life for Documentary Feature Award; See You See Me: At Home With Decisions, BBC Scotland for Education Award; Made in Shetland - Ronnie Eunson, BBC Scotland/BBC Radio 4 for Radio Documentary Award; Rudha Chaluim, BBC Radio nan Gaidheal for Radio Documentary Award; The Winds Will Sing, BBC Scotland for Radio Documentary Award; BBC Radio nan Gaidheal for Station of the Year Award; Scotland on Film website www.bbc.co.uk/scotlandonfilm, BBC Scotland for Website Award


 Crime Writers’ Association Awards
Winner: Ian Rankin – the Cartier Diamond Dagger 2005
Shortlist: Catriona McPherson, Bella Bathhurst for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger 


 Critics’ Circle Film Awards
 Nominations: Annie Griffin for British Newcomer; Tilda Swinton for Best British Actress in a Supporting Role; James McAvoy for Best British Actor in a Supporting Role


 Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards
 Nomination: Scottish Ballet for Company Prize for Outstanding Repertoire (Classical), Eve Mutso for Best Female Dancer


 Edinburgh International Film Festival
Winners: Simon Hynd – Arts The Catalyst, Saltire Society Award for Short Documentary; Elizabeth Hobbs – The True Story of Sawney Bean, The McLaren Award for New British Animation 
Nominations in all categories: On a Clear Day, Asylum, Guy X, The Holyrood Files, The Autograph Hunters, A Difficult Case, Fight or Flight, Fine, Multi Story, Waiting for Happiness, Public: Private, Quicken, Replay, Size 5, Eat Dog Cat Mouse, Invasion, Beasty, The Gift, Human Trial, Show Ponies, Solo Duets, A Tale of Forest Clearing


 European Film Awards
 Winner: Sir Sean Connery – the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award


 Forward Prize for Poetry
 Shortlisted: John Burnside for Best Collection; Richard Price for Best First Collection 


 Grammy Awards
Winner: Craig Armstrong for Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
Nominations: Franz Ferdinand for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Alternative Music Album


 Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year 
 Longlisted: Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Art Gallery


 James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
 Nomination: Ali Smith for Fiction


 Laurence Olivier Awards
 Nominations: Ewan McGregor for Best Actor in a Musical; David McVicar for Outstanding Achievement in Opera


 Man Booker Prize
 Shortlist: Ali Smith – The Accidental


 MTV Europe Video and Music Awards
 Nomination: Franz Ferdinand for Best Rock


 Nationwide Mercury Music Prize
 Shortlist: KT Tunstall, Polar Bear


 Northern Rock Foundation Writer Award
 Andrew Crumey


 Conservation Awards (formerly Pilgrim Trust Awards for Conservation)
 Shortlisted: The British Library, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, JISC, the National Archives and the Wellcome Library – UK Web Archiving Consortium for The Digital Preservation Award 2005


 Royal Society of Literature Prizes – Onaajte Prize, VS Pritchett Prize
 Winner: Jonathan Haylett for the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize 


 Scotsman and Orange Short Story Award
Winner: Kirstin Zhang, GreenockSecond: Anne Morrison, Sutherland
Runners up: Nicolas McGregor, Glenrothes; Frances Watt, Forfar; Derek Robertson, Renfrew; Ewan Gault, Dollar.


 Society of Authors Awards and Prizes
 Winner: Collette Paul for Tom-Gallon Award for a short story 


 South Bank Show Awards
 Nominations: Ashley Page for work with Scottish Ballet, Ian Hamilton Finlay for Sentences at Inverleith House, Edinburgh


 Stage Awards for Acting Excellence at the Edinburgh International Festival
Winner: Phil Nicol for Best Actor
Nomination: Vanishing Point for Best Ensemble 


 TS Eliot Prize for poetry
Winner: Carol Anne Duffy – Rapture
Shortlisted: Polly Clark – Take me with you


 Talente 
 Rebecca Wilson


 TMA Theatre Awards
Winners: Ian McDiarmid for Best Performance in a Play; Pyrenees by David Greig, Tron Theatre Company and Paines Plough in association with Watford Palace for Best New Play
Nominations: Scottish Opera for Achievement in Opera; Joe McFadden for Best Performance in a Musical


 TOTAL Theatre Awards
Winner: Grid Iron for The Devil’s Larder
Nomination: Vanishing Point


 Turner Prize
Winner: Simon Starling
Shortlist: Jim Lambie


 Whitbread Awards for First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry, and Children’s Book plus Book of the Year
Winner: Ali Smith – The Accidental for the Whitbread Novel Award
Shortlisted: Richard Price – Lucky Day for the Poetry Award


 World Ceramic Biennale
 Bronze award: Simon Ward

Drug and Alcohol Misuse

Ms Rosemary Byrne (South of Scotland) (Sol): To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been allocated for dedicated specialist stimulant service provision in each of the last three financial years (a) in total and (b) broken down by local alcohol and drug action team area.

Johann Lamont: Breakdown of funding for dedicated specialist stimulant services in each local Alcohol and Drug Action Team area is not available centrally.

  Planning for services is done at local rather than national level. Alcohol and Drug Action Teams and their partner agencies are responsible for assessing needs and commissioning services in their local areas, including any arrangements for the provision of services addressing stimulant use.

  Following the recommendations of the Scottish Advisory Council on Drug Misuse (SACDM) Psychostimulant Working Group (PSWG) in 2002, the Executive made available for two years (2003-04 to 2004-05) funding for a Psychostimulant Pilot Project in Aberdeen. In addition, the Executive provides grant funding to Crew 2000 to support the Edinburgh Stimulant Users’ Service (eSUS).

  

 Year
 Edinburgh Stimulant Users’ Service (eSUS)
 Incite Psychostimulant Pilot Project
 Total


 2006-07
£33,740
 N/A
£33,740


 2005-06
£25,000
 N/A
£25,000


 2004-05
£25,000
£138,000
£163,000

Drug and Alcohol Misuse

Ms Rosemary Byrne (South of Scotland) (Sol): To ask the Scottish Executive what funding will be allocated for dedicated specialist stimulant service provision in 2007-08 (a) in total and (b) broken down by local alcohol and drug action team area.

Johann Lamont: Breakdown of funding for dedicated specialist stimulant services in each local Alcohol and Drug Action Team area is not available centrally.

  Planning for services is done at local rather than national level. Alcohol and Drug Action Teams and their partner agencies are responsible for assessing needs and commissioning services in their local areas, including any arrangements for the provision of services addressing stimulant use.

  In 2007-08, the Executive is providing £34,533 to Crew 2000 to support the Edinburgh Stimulant Users’ Service (eSUS).

Drug and Alcohol Misuse

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-24528 by Hugh Henry on 11 April 2006, how many individuals were unable to access residential drug rehabilitation places in each year since 2001-02 due to insufficient numbers of beds.

Johann Lamont: This information is not held centrally.

Drug and Alcohol Misuse

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-24528 by Hugh Henry on 11 April 2006, what funding was provided for residential rehabilitation services in each year since 2001-02.

Johann Lamont: The Executive provided £6.8 million per annum to local authorities in the three years 2001-02 to 2003-04 specifically to support drug rehabilitation services. Thereafter this funding was incorporated into Grant Aided Expenditure (GAE).

  In addition, we provide £23.7 million annually to NHS boards for drug treatment services.

  Planning of services is done at local rather than national level. Alcohol and Drug Action Teams (ADATs) and their partner agencies are responsible for assessing needs and commissioning services in their local areas, including residential services aimed at the rehabilitation of drug users.

Enterprise

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how much direct funding through business grants or other financial assistance was given to businesses in Scotland under (a) R&D Plus, (b) Research and Development Assistance, (c) Regional Selective Assistance, (d) SMART awards, (e) SPUR support and (f) venture capital investment, broken down by (i) year since 1996 and (ii) local authority area.

Nicol Stephen: The information that my department holds is set out in the following tables.

  R&D PLUS*

  Expenditure by Financial Year

  

 Financial Year
 Actual Amount Paid


 2003-04
£2,299,842


 2004-05
£2,602,963


 2005-06
£3,865,570


 Total
£8,768,375



  Expenditure During Period 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2006 Broken Down by Local Enterprise Company Area

  

 Local Enterprise Area
 Actual Amount Paid


 SEn Ayrshire
£485,870


 SEn Dumfries and Galloway
£950,000


 SEn Edinburgh and Lothian
£6,750,281


 SEn Forth Valley
£325,008


 SEn Lanarkshire
£10,091


 SEn Renfrewshire
£186,250


 SEn Tayside
£60,875


 Total
£8,768,375



  Note: *R&D Plus is administered by Scottish Enterprise and was launched in 2003-04. The information is recorded by Local Enterprise Company (LEC) area. Expenditure figures for individual local authority areas are not maintained centrally.

  Research and Development Assistance*

  Expenditure by Financial Year

  

 Financial Year
 Actual Amount Paid


 2003-04
£1,381,132


 2004-05
£930,023


 2005-06
£1,750,146


 Total
£4,061,301



  Expenditure During Period 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2006 Broken Down by Local Enterprise Company Area

  

 Scottish Enterprise LEC Area
 Actual Amount Paid


 SEn Ayrshire
£152,894


 SEn Borders
£337,497


 SEn Dumfries and Galloway
£138,497


 SEn Dunbartonshire
£95,632


 SEn Edinburgh and Lothian
£268,595


 SEn Fife
£251,581


 SEn Forth Valley
£197,896


 SEn Glasgow
£400,865


 SEn Grampian
£231,240


 SEn Lanarkshire
£372,177


 SEn Renfrewshire
£312,883


 SEn Tayside
£207,687


 Highlands and Islands LEC Areas
 


 Argyll and The Islands Enterprise
£151,185


 Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise
£33,005


 Highlands and Islands Enterprise
£425,718


 Inverness and Nairn Enterprise
£176,328


 Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey Enterprise
£20,229


 Orkney Enterprise
£5,174


 Ross and Cromarty Enterprise
£71,545


 Skye and Lochalsh Enterprise
£72,425


 Shetland Enterprise
£80,435


 Western Isles Enterprise
£57,813


 Total
£4,061,301



  Note: *The figures quoted are for Highlands and Islands Enterprise’s R&D Scheme for SMEs and the R&D component of Scottish Enterprise’s equivalent Small Company Innovation Support Scheme. The information is recorded by local enterprise company area. Expenditure figures for individual local authority areas are not maintained centrally.

  Regional Selective Assistance, SMART, SPUR and SPURPLUS*

  Actual Expenditure by Financial Year

  

 Financial Year
 Regional Selective Assistance
 SMART
 SPUR
 SPURPLUS


 1996-97
£69,819,389
£1,236,901
£828,115
£32,002


 1997-98
£74,262,000
£1,088,108
£1,405,225
£303,553


 1998-99
£73,388,795
£1,105,874
£1,876,711
£630,503


 1999-2000
£51,966,770
£1,595,409
£1,724,540
£1,246,901


 2000-01
£70,054,355
£1,390,492
£582,599
£1,251,306


 2001-02
£44,204,850
£1,771,989
£275,845
£2,134,638


 2002-03
£36,381,856
£2,532,689
£308,111
£3,638,633


 2003-04
£41,992,800
£2,293,843
£624,160
£3,165,202


 2004-05
£45,482,300
£2,105,530
£1,312,949
£3,933,627


 2005-06
£35,995,000
£2,126,104
£2,587,653
£2,455,196


 Total
£543,548,115
£17,246,939
£11,525,908
£18,791,561



  Actual Expenditure During Period 1 April 1996 to 31 March 2006 Broken Down by Local Authority Area

  

 Council Area
 Regional Selective Assistance
 SMART
 SPUR
 SPURPLUS


 Aberdeen City
 0
£2,463,363
£1,242,091
£716,051


 Aberdeenshire
 0
£264,983
£172,599
 0


 Angus
£3,805,000
£316,135
£226,739
 0


 Argyll and Bute
£114,000
£121,834
 0
 0


 Borders
£2,402,200
£253,615
 0
 0


 Clackmannanshire
£3,189,600
£75,000
 0
£437,079


 Dumfries and Galloway
£4,764,000
£45,000
£33,682
 0


 Dundee City
£12,656,889
£441,481
£434,604
£2,777,117


 East Ayrshire
£11,679,200
£91,667
 0
 0


 East Dunbartonshire
£11,328,000
£161,486
£11,061
 0


 East Lothian
 0
£151,964
£262,755
£221,980


 East Renfrewshire
£2,210,000
 0
 0
£317,602


 City of Edinburgh
£3,155,000
£3,384,622
£2,171,607
£4,484,429


 Falkirk
£4,783,100
£399,756
£373,210
 0


 Fife
£67,970,100
£918,489
£484,836
£425,000


 Glasgow City
£67,423,803
£2,777,711
£2,152,216
£1,982,586


 Highland
£1,100,000
£323,994
£101,992
 0


 Inverclyde
£16,369,000
£45,000
 0
 0


 Midlothian
 0
£1,161,145
£623,186
£2,244,845


 North Ayrshire
£41,240,750
£79,171
£54,805
 0


 North Lanarkshire
£60,953,093
£533,180
£511,635
£1,658,873


 Orkney Islands
 0
£45,000
 0
 0


 Perth and Kinross
£275,000
£256,821
£219,958
£393,164


 Renfrewshire
£45,571,000
£185,779
£274,061
£555,820


 South Ayrshire
£9,091,000
£284,290
£196,002
£338,300


 South Lanarkshire
£66,617,724
£377,960
£144,060
£567,947


 Stirling
£1,912,000
£485,514
£420,409
 0


 West Dunbartonshire
£8,380,000
£548,684
 0
 0


 Western Isles
 0
£61,626
 0
 0


 West Lothian
£96,557,656
£991,668
£1,414,400
£1,670,770


 Total
£543,548,115
£17,246,938
£11,525,908
£18,791,563



  Note: *The above figures are actuals. The Scottish Executive moved to accruals accounting in 2000-01. Therefore, the figures above may differ from other published figures. Accruals figures for individual council areas are not held.

  Venture Capital Investment*

  Expenditure by Financial Year

  

 Financial Year
 Actual Amount Invested


 1996-97
£5,486,000


 1997-98
£5,799,000


 1998-99
£6,559,000


 1999-2000
£8,983,000


 2000-01
£18,533,000


 2001-02
£10,906,000


 2002-03
£4,410,000


 2003-04
£10,322,000


 2004-05
£12,325,000


 2005-06
£23,105,000


 Total
£106,428,000



  Note: *The above figures are taken from the Scottish Enterprise published accounts for the years in question and relate to investments undertaken on commercial terms. Information on expenditure within individual local authority or local enterprise company areas is not maintained centrally.

Housing

Brian Adam (Aberdeen North) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29166 by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 November 2006, why it excluded the Aberdeen stock transfer result and whether any other similar ballots were not included in the answer.

Malcolm Chisholm: The councils listed in the reply to question S2W-29166 were those who have undertaken formal independent ballots of tenants on whole stock transfer proposals since 1999. The 2002 exercise undertaken by Aberdeen City Council was simply a referendum on the principle of transfer versus retention to inform the council’s future policy direction. It was not a ballot on a specific proposal to transfer its housing to a Registered Social Landlord. I understand that the Dundee Federation of Tenants Association undertook a similar exercise in 2004. Tests of opinion on the principle of transfer versus retention, without the benefit of a detailed transfer proposal to compare with the service offered by the council, may have been carried out in other areas but this information is not held by the Executive.

Housing

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29363 by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 November 2006, how the £1,045,000 earmarked by Communities Scotland for seedcorn funding to support local housing organisations in taking forward their second stage transfer proposals has been allocated and distributed.

Malcolm Chisholm: The majority of the seed corn budget has been supporting local housing organisations (LHOs) initially on Glasgow Housing Association’s (GHA’s) prototype Second Stage Transfer (SST) programme and then, subsequently, after GHA ended the prototype programme, on the pilot SST programme. Guidance on seed corn funding for the prototype/pilot programme is available on the Communities Scotland website (at http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk ) and provides an indication of what costs for pilot LHOs are considered as eligible for seed corn funding.

  In addition, some limited seed corn funding will be available to LHOs within GHA’s Community Ownership Intentions (COI) process to help LHOs to decide whether or not they have a reasonable prospect of preparing a fundable Business Case for SST and, as a result, whether or not they should move forward to the next stage. Communities Scotland would expect to be able to provide further seed corn funding to those LHOs who are able to move forward.

  Finally, some funding is expected to be used to provide general support to help take SST forward, for example by providing support for LHOs on risk assessment and for the Joint Team on financial issues.

Housing

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29239 by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 November 2006, on what financial issues related to second stage transfers it sought independent or external advice.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Executive has sought independent, external advice on a broad range of financial issues associated with Second Stage Transfers (SST), including VAT, funding and risk.

Housing

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the recent ministerial changes will have on the membership of the ministerial working party on the second stage transfer of Glasgow Housing Association’s housing stock.

Malcolm Chisholm: I will chair the Ministerial Progress Group on Second Stage Transfers (SST). Otherwise the membership of the group will remain unchanged.

Housing (Scotland) Act 2006

Derek Brownlee (South of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) initial set up and (b) annual costs to (i) the Executive, (ii) local authorities, (iii) other public sector organisations or bodies and (iv) other individuals, organisations and bodies of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 were projected to be in the Financial Memorandum to the bill and what the actual (1) initial set up costs were and (2) costs have been to date since the act came into force, in each category.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Financial Memorandum to the bill is available on the Parliament’s website. The act received Royal Assent in January 2006 and the great majority of the act’s provisions had not been brought into force by the end of the year 2005-06. Comparable actual costings are not therefore available yet.

Income

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the average (a) unsecured debt per person and (b) annual income was in each year since 1997.

Malcolm Chisholm: Information for part (a) is not available.

  Table 1 contains median annual equivalised net disposable household income estimates from 1996-97 for Scotland. These estimates are based on the Department for Work and Pensions’ Family Resources Survey.

  Table 1

  

 
 Median Annual Household Income before Housing Costs
 Median Annual Household Income after Housing Costs


 1996-97
£12,957
£11,330


 1997-98
£13,652
£11,966


 1998-99
£13,932
£12,153


 1999-00
£14,585
£12,830


 2000-01
£14,784
£13,036


 2001-02
£15,770
£13,970


 2002-03
£16,334
£14,691


 2003-04
£17,448
£15,897


 2004-05
£18,169
£16,294



  Source: Households Below Average Income, DWP.

  Table 2 contains median annual equivalised net disposable household income estimates from 1996-97 for Scotland which has been adjusted for inflation.

  Table 2 2004-05 Prices

  

 
 Median Annual Household Income before Housing Costs
 Median Annual Household Income after Housing Costs


 1996-97
£14,841
£12,463


 1997-98
£15,409
£12,907


 1998-99
£15,509
£13,052


 1999-2000
£15,810
£13,541


 2000-01
£16,110
£13,817


 2001-02
£16,955
£14,565


 2002-03
£17,233
£15,105


 2003-04
£17,970
£16,094


 2004-05
£18,169
£16,294



  Source: Households Below Average Income, DWP.

  Notes:

  Net disposable household income: Total income after deductions for income tax, National Insurance Contributions, council tax, pension contributions and maintenance payments.

  Housing costs: Net disposable income but with rent/mortgage payments, water charges, structural insurance premiums, ground rent and service charges deducted.

  Equivalised net disposable household income: "Equivalised" Income is used to allow comparisons of living standards between different household types. Income is adjusted to take into account variations in the size and composition of the household. This adjustment reflects the fact that a family of several people requires a higher income than a single person in order for both households to enjoy a comparable standard of living. The key assumption is that all individuals in the household benefit equally from the combined (equivalised) income of the household. There are distinct equivalence scales used for income before housing costs (BHC) and income after housing costs (AHC).

  Current prices: The second table has been adjusted for inflation (using the Retail Price Index) and provides median annual income estimates in the current (latest) year’s prices (2004-05).

Justice

Jeremy Purvis (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on automatic number plate recognition.

Cathy Jamieson: We recognise Automatic Number Plate Recognition (APNR) technology as a powerful and effective policing tool in the fight against crime and are fully supportive of the Scottish Police Service making use of such modern technology.

Leasehold Casualties (Scotland) Act 2001

Derek Brownlee (South of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) initial set up and (b) annual costs to (i) the Executive, (ii) local authorities, (iii) other public sector organisations or bodies and (iv) other individuals, organisations and bodies of the Leasehold Casualties (Scotland) Act 2001 were projected to be in the Financial Memorandum to the bill and what the actual (1) initial set up costs were and (2) annual costs have been in each year since the act came into force, in each category.

Johann Lamont: The Financial Memorandum to the bill is available on the Parliament’s website. The only significant costs arising from the provisions in the act, which follows a member’s bill, is the amount payable in compensation by landlords or tenants in respect of registration i.e. up to £60 per property affected.

Mental Health

Mrs Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29406 by Lewis Macdonald on 14 November 2006, how many children suffering from mental ill-health have been admitted to adult hospital wards in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Lewis Macdonald: The information requested is given in a table entitled The numbers of children (less than 18 years of age) admitted to general facilities in Scottish psychiatric hospitals for calendar years 1999 to 2003 published by the Scottish Executive in 2006, a copy of which is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib number 41086).

Mortgage Rights (Scotland) Act 2001

Derek Brownlee (South of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) initial set up and (b) annual costs to (i) the Executive, (ii) local authorities, (iii) other public sector organisations or bodies and (iv) other individuals, organisations and bodies of the Mortgage Rights (Scotland) Act 2001 were projected to be in the Financial Memorandum to the bill and what the actual (1) initial set up costs were and (2) annual costs have been in each year since the act came into force, in each category.

Malcolm Chisholm: The Financial Memorandum to the bill is available on the Parliament’s website. The only substantive costs arising from the provisions in the act are incurred in relation to extra court time and legal aid costs. Legal aid costs in 2005-06 amounted to some £60,000 but it is not possible, with any degree of accuracy, to disaggregate the actual costs that are directly attributable to the act from the wider budgets of the Scottish Court Service. Information on actual costs incurred by local authorities or others is not held centrally, but are not likely to be significant.